So farewell, EMI. The British music company's takeover and dismemberment may not be complete yet, but EMI bosses past and present are taking no chances by inviting people to the closing down party at Somerset House on 24 September. Well, it isn't being billed as that, but rather as a £150-a-head benefit for the EMI Music Sound Foundation, a charity that is about the only thing that is going to survive once the vultures have their way. "Incredible music," is promised from an invite that tantalisingly lists Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Cliff Richard plus Diana Ross and Tina Turner. More curiously too are the list of former EMI moguls on the invite – Guy Hands, Eric Nicoli, Sir Colin Southgate – and even Citigroup, who kindly presided over the demolition of the business by selling it on. Come on chaps, tell us where it all went wrong?